another install problem

[Derry]

Hi,
still having problems installing Calibre in opensuse 11.1 using the latest binary and got the following error message:

Starting HAL daemon done
udevadm control expects commands without underscore, this will stop working in a future release
Setting up bash completion... failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/linux.py", line 191, in setup_completion
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/main.py", line 29, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/scheduler.py", line 23, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/user_profiles.py", line 10, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/user_profiles_ui.py", line 245, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/widgets.py", line 19, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/utils/fontconfig.py", line 117, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py", line 366, in __getattr__
func = self.__getitem__(name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py", line 371, in __getitem__
func = self._FuncPtr((name_or_ordinal, self))
AttributeError: /home/derry/calibre/loader: undefined symbol: FcPatternBuild
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/init.py", line 45, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/linux.py", line 482, in binary_install
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/linux.py", line 452, in post_install
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/linux.py", line 323, in setup_completion
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'manifest' referenced before assignment
/home/derry/calibre/calibre_postinstall: line 7: 4004 Segmentation fault $loader "$@"


Any help would be gratefully appreciated,
Derry

[kovidgoyal]

What does the following output

calibre-debug -c "from ctypes import util; print util.find_library('fontconfig')"

[Derry]

output is as follows:

None
/usr/bin/calibre-debug: line 7: 3681 Segmentation fault $loader "$@"

Thanks for getting back to me
Derry

[kovidgoyal]

What about this:

readelf -a /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so | grep FcPatternBuild

[kovidgoyal]

Also if you have a 64bit system, you need to make sure you have 32 bit versions of the fontconfig and freetype libraries

[Derry]

Hi,
Thanks to your posts above, I've managed to solve the problem. I had a look to see if I had freetype installed, had freetype2 installed but not freetype itself. I installed this and ran calibre_postinstall, and this time it worked fine.

Thanks again for your time, much appreciated,
Derry

[k8oylos]

hi Derry,
I have a similar problem to yours. i read your post and installed freetype besides freetype2, as you suggested, but the problem persists. What exactly did you do to solve this? How do you ran calibre_postinstall, i can't seem to find it!
Dimitrios

[k8oylos]

update: i run /opt/calibre/calibre_postinstall and get

Creating symlinks...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/init.py", line 45, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/linux.py", line 479, in binary_install
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/bin/epub2lrf'
/opt/calibre/calibre_postinstall: line 7: 9336 Segmentation fault $loader "$@"

[user_none]

calibre_postinstall needs to be run with root privileges.